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  • He was a "Temanite", i.e., a native of Teman, in Idumea.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • Into this remarkable ancient Hebrew poem, I find it impossible to imagine any viable spot for a tiny sebaceous cyst, and that tedious question as to the scale of pain from one to ten — other than maybe in the fussy soliloquies of Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Into this remarkable ancient Hebrew poem, I find it impossible to imagine any viable spot for a tiny sebaceous cyst, and that tedious question as to the scale of pain from one to ten — other than maybe in the fussy soliloquies of Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.

    On a scale of one to ten... 2009

  • Replying angrily to Eliphaz the Temanite, who had argued that suffering is punishment for sin, Job says:Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Replying angrily to Eliphaz the Temanite, who had argued that suffering is punishment for sin, Job says:Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?

    Jumpy beat of American English 2009

  • Thy wife was an impertinent, but thy pretended friends Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, were much more insupportable.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Temanite, and his two friends, his wrath was kindled against them, for they had not spoken of him things that were right: we may justly of these schismatics and heretics, how wise soever in their own conceits, non recte loquuntur de Deo, they speak not, they think not, they write not well of God, and as they ought.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Chapter 15 1. Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2. Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Chapter 4 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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